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- n. idiomatic Something that is difficult or impossible to locate; something impossibly complex or intractable.
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“Had long-range Coastal Command aircraft of the type that swept the North Atlantic later in the war been available, the hunting groups might have had a chance; as it was, the search for a proverbial needle in a haystack was, by comparison, an easy task.”
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